Shareholder Agreement Documents

Simply-Docs provides a comprehensive set of Shareholder Agreement templates and related corporate documents designed for UK private companies. These templates help record the rights, responsibilities, and relationships between shareholders, directors, and the company. The collection includes preparation guides, draft Shareholder Agreements, optional clauses, deeds, and Declarations of Trust for nominee shareholders.

All documents are solicitor-drafted, regularly updated to comply with the Companies Act 2006, and suitable for startups, SMEs, and professional advisers.

Preparing Your Shareholder Agreement

Provides a practical guide in the form of Shareholders’ Agreement Notes and a Shareholders’ Agreement Checklist to help company founders and shareholders plan the content of their shareholder agreement before drafting and/or instructing legal advisors.

Contents & Use:

Explains key terms and clauses (e.g. share transfers, decision-making, exit provisions).
Helps you determine which agreement template suits your company structure and goals.
Ideal first step before completing or signing any formal shareholder documentation.

Shareholder Agreement Templates

These are the core legal templates that set out the terms on which shareholders own and manage a company. This selection covers a range of structures and interests to reduce the requisite tailoring to specific needs.

Contents & Variants:

Includes a matrix to help you choose the best fit agreement
Standard Shareholder Agreement (equal or unequal holdings)
Agreements for new investors or joint ventures
Optional provisions for director appointments, dividends, and dispute resolution

Shareholder Agreement Optional Clauses

These optional clauses provide stand-alone templates you can insert into your agreement to handle particular issues such as board representation, exit mechanics, deadlock or minority protections.

Context:

The combination of applying relevant optional clause(s) to a robust base template delivers a comprehensive, tailored shareholder agreement rather than a one-size-fits-all document.

Deeds of Adherence and Termination

Formal deeds for adding or removing parties from an existing shareholder agreement.

Includes:

Deed of Adherence: allows a new shareholder or investor to join the existing agreement on the same terms.

Deed of Termination: releases a departing shareholder from their obligations.

Declarations of Trust for Nominee Shareholders

Used when shares are held by a nominee or trustee on behalf of a beneficial owner.

Context:
These templates complement, but are not part of, a shareholder agreement. They record the beneficial interest in shares where the registered shareholder is acting as a nominee.

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